Workplace Democracy
Worker-Owned, Worker-Spun
Taking Back the South Bronx: Opening Day at a Green Worker Co-op
By Lauren Kozol
Where Teachers Rule
Who Gains From the Green Economy?
Searching For the Next Cooperative Principle
In 1995, the International Cooperative Alliance adopted seven cooperative principles to define and guide cooperatives throughout the world. Briefly stated, the "traditional seven" include: voluntary and open membership; democratic member control; member economic participation; autonomy and independence; education, training and information; cooperation among cooperatives; and concern for community.
A Strategy for Unions and Coops: Toward Building A Labor-Ownership Economy
Both Hands in the Soil
There is an ethical imperative to shift the balance of economic power away from corporate Capitalism and toward economies that benefit us all. Beginning with this assumption, I will explain how it is possible for unions and worker cooperatives to collaborate strategically to take market share away from absentee-owned and wage labor capitalist enterprises and place control of resources and production in the hands of communities of working people.
Unions & Cooperatives: Allies in the Struggle to Build Democratic Workplaces
Our Eyes On the Prize: From a "Worker Co-op Movement" to a Transformative Social Movement
Harmony Agricultural Cooperative Fights Exclusion In Brazil
Worker Co-ops and the Federation of Southern Cooperatives
By John Zippert, Federation of Souther Cooperatives
From August 16-18, 2007, the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund will celebrate its fortieth (40th) anniversary and Annual Meeting. Growing from 22 cooperatives and credit unions organized by SNCC, CORE, SCLC and other civil rights organizations in the South in the 1960's, the Federation has worked with thousands of Black farmers and other low income rural folks over the past four decades.
